Saturday, May 15, 2010

Whirly-pop top

I finished this top FINALLY. Its the longest I’ve ever worked on a quilt…3 months. I started the blocks way back in January, (finished everything on that to do list except the losing weight part….ahem) but then they sat in a box for 2 1/2 months waiting for me to finish them. The whirlygigs in this top are only 3" sewn.

I’m not feeling the outer border on this one, it might need to be taken off. It looks OK in the picture but in real life its kind of wonky since its hard to get those pez’s lined up nice and straight. We’ll see. I took this picture of the back so you could see all those seams smooshed in there. Its the dang ironing that took me 3 months to finish…the sewing part was easy. The pattern is by Camille(hi Camille!) you can find it here.

Very nice! What if you took off the Pez border and just left on the light blue? would it be a satisfactory size? The whirlygigs are great, they deserve their own spotlight. I'm amazed at how much you get done with a baby!

i am working on the same pattern! and it is taking me FOREVER...those damn little things are so hard for me. how did you manage to make them all so accurate? grr...definately not one of my better projects. yours is lovely. i agree, i'm not loving the outer border.